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Meaning of variadic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/vɛɹiˈædɪk/

Definitions

  1. Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
    not-comparable
  2. Belonging to a variadic function.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

Français variadique

Examples

“C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.”
“There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.”
“The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.”
“However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9”
“each variadic argument”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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